Typically constructed with a few baseline ingredients — flour, salt, butter and water — a traditional butter crust does have ...

Making a great pie starts with the crust. Even though there are countless ways to configure pie crust, and it varies depending on the type of filling, the classic remains the butt ...

I like to eat pies. I do not like to buy pies. Yes, I am cheap and, yes, I am persnickety. In fact I do buy pies that have no ...

I use a mounded cup of flour for each layer of crust (two cups per pie). And a teaspoon of salt for each pie. About ¾ cup of Crisco per pie. I use a pastry cutter — rounded parallel wires ...

such as replacing the Crisco with butter to achieve a lighter and fluffier texture, to reducing the amount of sugar in the recipe by half, and swapping the cinnamon with pumpkin pie spice to add ...